LCPL

This article is about the World War II landing craft. For the Military Rank see Lance Corporal.Landing Craft Personnel (Large) was a landing craft used by the U.S. Navy in World War II and for about twenty five years thereafter. Along with the LCVP, LCM and PT Boat, it was a mainstay of the fighting Navy in World War II. During the 1930s Higgins Industries had perfected a workboat, dubbed the 'Eureka' model, designed to work in the swamps and marshes of south Louisiana. The shallow-draft boat could operate in only eighteen inches (45 cm) of water, running through vegetation and over logs and debris without fouling its propeller. It could also run right up on shore and extract itself without damage. As part of his sales demonstrations, Higgins often had the boats run up on the Lake Ponchartrain seawall.
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